Re: git guidance

From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git guidance
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:52:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071129105220.v40i22q4gw4cgoso@intranet.digizenstudio.com> (raw)

Quoting Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>:

> Sure, browsing is the easy part, but Version Control starts when things
> become writable.

But how is that supposed to work?  What happens when you make some
changes to a file and save it?  Do you want the "git file system" to
commit it right aways or wait until you to issue a "commit" command?
The first behavior would obviously be wrong, and the second would make
the "file system" not operationally transparent anyways. Right?

By the way, the only SCM I have worked with that tries to mount its
repository (or a view on top of it) as a file system is ClearCase with
its dynamic views. And, between the buggy file system implementation,
the intrusion on workflow, and the lack of scalability, at least in
the organization I worked for, it turned out to be a horrible,
horrible, horrible idea.

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue